Example sentences of "[adv] was [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't take my eyes off him at the office and five o'clock was such a wrench — all those hours before I would see him again . |
| 2 | ‘ Never , perhaps , before was such a suit of mourning seen to distinguish the mourner-in-chief ; no long black cloak , no scarf , no hatband , no gloves … |
| 3 | I wondered what his real origins were , and if there really was such a thing as original sin , people born evil . |
| 4 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 5 | And when Ubaldo asked the Milettis , lo and behold there was such a villa , such an olive grove , such shares ! |
| 6 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 7 | Even this century has produced stubborn opponents of the view that the library was either burnt in one of Moscow 's fires , or that the books were long ago dispersed to other libraries , or that , in reality , there never was such a library . |